Roundtable discussion

Our topic of roundtable discussion is whether should my home country support Kirchhoff's claim that 'a collaborative effort by industry, academia, and government will promote the adoption of green chemistry technologies that are necessary to achieve a sustainable society.

There are 5 people in my group, Wang He is the moderator, Yan Lujiang and me are the proposition, Yi Rui and Dean are the opposition side. We choose Singapore as our home country.

Proposition's point of view:

1.Singapore is very small, there is no natural resources here. We have to find a way to achieve sustainable development.

2.We can also improve Singapore's industrial structure by promoting green chemistry.

3.Most importantly, by promoting green chemistry, we can improve manufacturing, and being friendly to the environment.

4.Comparing with developed country, developing coumtries are more suitable to promote green chemistry.

Opposition's point of view:

1.Manufacturing is not the most important part of Singapore's GDP. We don't have to spend too much money on promoting green chemistry.

2.We have to change product line if we want to promoting green chemistry, which will be time consuming.


During the Q&A session, a classmate asked me a question why green chemistry is more suitable in developing country rather than developed country. Actually, in developing country, things are not that well developed, once they decide to apply green chemistry, they can add this concept while developing and improving their manufacturing. But in developed country, industry is very well developed, if they want to applying green chemistry, they have to stop using the old product line and build a new one, which may be costly and time consuming.